On Monday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will become the first Latina to administer to the oath of office. She'll swear in Vice President Joe Biden who, according to Colorlines, personally picked Associate Justice Sotomayor for the ceremony. It's pretty astonishing to think that Monday's milestone will be just one of many for Justice Sotomayor, whose incredibly humble beginnings have taken her from the tenements of the Bronx to the highest court in the United States.

Y'know: All in a life's work for an ambitious lady. (Er...well, sort of.) That's the story Justice Sotomayor tells in My Beloved World, her intrepid, candid autobiography out this week. It includes so much on her life with juvenile diabetes, a less-than-placid upbringing, facing discrimination, living in the public eye, and managing the always precarious work-life balance that we talk about here on this blog. That's just scratching the surface, friends.

"When I saw Justice Sotomayor at a reception at the Vice President's residence, I was struck by how easy it was to walk up to her--that she didn't stand on ceremony but really seemed interested in talking with other women," Linda Kramer-Jenning, Glamour's Washington, D.C. Editor told me today via email. "Her life story and accomplishments are amazing and yet she remains approachable, and that's part of what makes her so inspiring."

If you have some time, you must listen to these fantastic interviews with the Justice herself on NPR: "The Sotomayor Interview" with Nina Totenberg, during which Sotomayor talks openly about both her family and her job. This interview isn't about politics, ladies; it's a human story that's moving and captivating, and I guarantee you'll have a new respect for one of the women shaping the future of the country.

Are you planning to read Justice Sotomayor's autobiography? Are you looking forward to watching her swear in Vice President Biden this weekend? Let me know if you listen to the NPR interviews and if you enjoy them as much as I did--I learned so much from them.